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A short, shadow-animated film that I made with Edward Westerhuis in Whitehorse, Yukon is currently touring the country as part of the Sci-Fi Double Feature, a creation of Yukon’s own Ramshackle Theatre (Brian Fidler and Edward Westerhuis). The film Edward and I made is called Zoobee Zoobak’s Unregistered Inventors Summit, and it features a naively confident, duck-billed host guiding the heckling audience through three inventors’ creations. We witness the downfall of the event, and Zoobak’s blind enthusiasm.
In 2011, Zoobee won top honours at the First Annual Shadow Challenge, hosted by ED Video in Guelph, Ontario. I’m really happy it’s part of this event with Ramshackle. Now for a sequel! How about, Zoobee Zoobak’s Animal Wonderland Show? Or, Zoobee Zoobak’s Journey to Saturn. So many possibilities.
BROKEN DEER: SOUTHERN SOULS REVIEW -
A really wonderful review from Andrew Patterson at Southern Souls:
Often, when discussing the merits of lo-fi recording, there is an emphasis on how the sound is made beautiful by restriction. Either there is a sense of immediacy (time restriction) or a sense of triumph despite limitations…
I’m organizing/curating this event for the OBEY Convention in Halifax, NS. It’s free. Be sure to come on out!
COMMON ROOTS URBAN FARM PRESENTS – Music for Plants and Food Wolf Brunch
June 9th – 1pm | Common Roots Urban FarmImprovised music. An urban farm. Springing plants. Locally-sourced brunch. All these elements will come together on Sunday afternoon’s Music for Plants – a performance of improvised music where artists will create soundscapes and textures inspired by their interactions with the plants at Common Roots Urban Farm. Inspired by her love of nature and sound, Lindsay Dobbin wanted to create an environment where the connection between the two could be explored, and she has invited her collaborators Evan Cardwell (Double Vision Quest) and Jesse Matthews (JFM), who call themselves JOURNEYS, to go on that quest. Tim Crabtree of Paper Beat Scissors will also be performing his more ambient, improvisational sounds. Other artists TBA.
Commons Root Urban Farm aims to deepen the connection between people and nature, and OBEY is thrilled to be part of that adventure by offering sound as a modality to grow food and community.
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The film Heather Rappard made for “My Heart’s in the Highlands” will premiere this Thursday via Hartzine. Also, it was selected to screen at the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival as part of the Atlantic Canadian Experimental Works + Chamber Shorts screening. Called a “gothic love ballad” by HIFF, the film has so much textural depth, light mixing with dark. I can’t wait until everyone gets to experience it!
There is now a Broken Deer Tumblr, for all things Broken Deer. Also, Polaraura is going to be released in less than a week. It will be available Tuesday, March 27 via Bandcamp in limited edition cassette/zine format and/or digital download.
Broken Deer is the low-fi field recording/experimental folk project of Canadian Lindsay Dobbin. Through combining sounds of exterior and interior environments, Broken Deer explores forgotten wildernesses and unearths tender histories to create highly personalized sonic landscapes.
Broken Deer’s next album, Polaraura, will be released independently on March 27, 2013. Recorded on analogue tape recorders in a cabin outside Whitehorse, Yukon, Polaraura is a sonic journey of spiritual longing in a beautiful but undiscerning landscape. Featuring sounds of frozen rivers, wolves, snow, wind, forest spirits, owls and, even, northern lights, Polaraura takes the listener on a journey to another world - a forgotten wilderness - within themselves.
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